Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-12

| concerted cjmfOrteTS, WISDOM VIII Gle
with you" Christ not ony used il in the
/ text, but when He ironically compli
| mented the putrefizd Pnarisees, saving,
| "The whole need not g physician" ana
WHEN by one word de described the cum
ming Of II rod, saying. $50 ye, ard tell
/ that K" Ma hew Hep:y's comments
RES from the first p ge to 6de last rus
Gated with humor as SUMNER clouds with
heat ligh' niug. john Buny0Q's writings
! are as fail Of humor IS they are Of saviug
truth, and there is not en- aged man here
who has ever read "Pbgrim's Progress"
/ who does not remember that while read
ing it be smiled "a often IS he wept
Chryso5tom, George Herbert, R 'bert
South, john Wesley, George Whit f-ld,
Jeremy Tsylor, Rowland Hill, n ettletoD,
George G Fiuney and sill of the men Of
| the past who greatly advanced the king
dom of GOD, consecrated their wit and
their bumor 10 the cause OF Christ. So
it has been in all the ages, and sly to
| those =, uDg theological students, who
cluster in these services Sabbath by Sab
bath, sharpen your wits IS
KEEN AS CIMETKRs,
and then take them INFO this molly war.
It is very short bridge between 8
smile and tear, q suspension bridge
| from eye to lip, and it is soon crossed
over, and smile is sometimes iast as sa-
cred as tear, There is IS much religion,
and l think & little more, in spring
| morning than in q starless midnight Re-
| ligious 9o,k wi bout any humor or vic in
| l. is banquet with side Of beef, aud
that raw, end no condiments, end no des-
sert succeeding People will not sit down
at such Banquet. By all means rem We
eli frlvolitY aud all pathos and all light
nes- AMI all igarity-straiu them out
through the sieve Of holy discrimination;
bur, on the other hand, beware of that
morst which Overshsdows the Christian
church to-day, coDventionarlty, coming
up II m the great Sshars d. sert OF eccle
siasnclsm. naviDg on it's back hump Of
sanctim ,Dions gloom, and vehemeptly re-
| fuse 10 swallO y that camel
On, how particular q great many people
are about the intinllessinals while thy
are quite reckless alb nut the msgni'udes
What did Christ saY2 Did He not K ;orl
ate the people in his time who We're SO
| careful to wash their hands before meal,
bur did not wash their hearts? Il is q
bad thing to have unclean hands; it is q
worse thing to have an unclean heart.
How many people there are in our time
VINO are very snxious that after their
| death they shall be buried with their feet
toward TIL east, and not at all anxious
tnst during their whole life they should
face in the right direction so that they
shsll com up in the resurrection OF the
| Just whichever way they ere buried. How
many there are Chi fly anxious that 9
minister of the gospel shall come in the
20. 81;
much whether he comes from Apostle
| Paul or Apostle JUDAS. They have q
way Of measuring gnnt until 1t is larger
than camel.
Again: My subject photographs all
| those who are ebhorrent of small sins
| while they are reckless in regard to mag
niflcent thefts. You will find many
a merchant who, while ne
is SO careful that he
would not take yard of cloth or spool
| ing for it, and who, il q bank cashier
should make mistake ard send in
ROLL OF BILLS
S. too much, would dispatch messen-
ger in hot haste to return the surplus,
| yet who Will go into stock company in
which after while he gets control of the
stock, and then waters the stock and
makes 100000 appear like 100000 He
only Stole 100000 by the operation.
Many of the men of fortune made their
wealth in that way. One Of those men,
ngsged in such unrighteous acts, that
evening, the evening Of the very day
when ne watered the stock, will find g
whsIf-rat stealing aTewspsp, from the
basement doorway, and will go out and
eaten the 1rchin by the collar, and twist
the collar so tightly that the poor fellow
cannot ssy that it was thirst for knowl-
| edge that led him TO the dishonest act,
| but grip the collar tighter and tighter,
| saying, al have been looking for you q
| long while; you stole my paper four or
five times, haven't you? you miserable
wretch" And then the old stock
gambler, with a voice they can
hear three blocks, will cry out,
police, policel" That same man, the
evening OF the day 10 which he watered
the stock, will kneel with his family In
prayers and hank God for the prosperity
of the day, then kiss his children good
night with an air which seems to say, 81
| nope you will all grow up to be IS good
as Jour father" Prisons for sins in
sectlle ia size, but palaces for crimes
dromedarian. No mercy for sins ami
mslcule in proportion, but great leniency
for mastodon iplquity. A poor boy silly
takes from The basket of market woman
choke pear-saving some one else from
the cholers-snd you smother him in the
horrible atmosphere Of Raymond street
jail CT New Y Jrk rombs, while his cousin,
who has been eklllful enough to stesi
| $50, 900 from the city, you will make hin
Candidate for the New York Legisla-
| turei
There is great deal Of uneasiness and
nervousness now emOng some people in
our time who have gotten unrignteous
fortunes, great deal of nervousness
about dynamite. 1 tell them that God
will put under their unrighteous fortunes
something more exp o,lve than dynamite,
the earthquake ct His Omnipotent indig-
nation. Ii is time that we Learn in Amer
lea that sin is not excussole in proper
tion IS it declares large dividends and
has on riders IN equioage. Many manis
| RIDING TO PRRDITION,
position ahead and lackey behind. To
steal one copy OF newspaper is gna. /;
to steal many thousands OF dollars is o
camel. There Is m ny fruit dealer who
would not consent to steal basket OF
peaches from neighbours stall, but who
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